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1) The raft
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Reluctant Nicky spends a wonderful summer with Grandma who introduces him to the joy of rafting down the river near her home and watching the animals along the banks.
2) Borderline
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Hoping the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas. Instead of the soul-soothing experience they'd longed for, the couple finds a pregnant woman--more dead than alive--and soon they are sucked into a labyrinth of intrigue that leads from the Mexican desert to the steps of the Governor's Mansion in Austin.
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Ex-Marine Gabe Ryder is fulfilling the last request of his best friend, Rob, who was killed in a firefight during their final days of service. He promised to help Robâs familyâ especially Robâs twin sister, Aliciaâwith their struggling river rafting business. Gabe has a hidden past with Alicia, though. Sheâs the woman who taught him that love might exist, yet he walked away from her.Alicia has more than enough on her plate...
8) White water
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Greg confronts his own fears and assumes a leadership role when his father is bitten by a rattlesnake during a white-water rafting trip.
10) Rough waters
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After their parents' death in an automobile accident, two teenage brothers are sent to Colorado to live with an estranged uncle, owner of a white-water rafting business.
11) The last river
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A chronicle of a kayak team's quest to make the first descent through the dangerous Tsangpo Gorge describes how the four expert members of the team took on an adventure that ended in tragedy.
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"As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to Woodchuck Rafting Company. Sam and Swami met as young, adventurous river guides but, a decade later, find themselves weighed down by money worries and the demands of adulthood. The town of Thunderwater, in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, could be the fresh start their marriage needs. But Woodchuck, once...
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A fully revised and updated edition of Gary Nichols widely used guide to river running in Utah. Major changes have occurred on Big and Little Cottonwood Creeks, which have many new drops with dangerous hydraulics. This edition accounts for these and other alterations in the states waterways over the past fifteen years. Also, several of the original river access points are now on private land. Alternative access points are presented and users are alerted...
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When, at age sixty-seven, backpack guru Colin Fletcher decided to make a six-month, single-handed, foot-and-raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River, it was not only for adventure but because he needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive"..
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Meet Peter, twenty-seven, single, and looking for a quick hookup; Evelyn, a fifty-year-old Harvard professor; and Ruth and Lloyd, river veterans in their seventies. Theres Mitchell, an overeager history buff with no qualms about unstaging the guides with his knowledge. Theres Jill from Salt Lake City, wanting desperately to spark some sense of adventure in her staid Mormon family; and seventeen-year-old Amy, so woefully overweight...